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Little Monster Alzheimer
At first he starts out small
No one notices him at all
He sits still as a stone
He only acts alone
He moves, right now, only once in a while
And sits back down every time with a smile.
Watch him closely and soon you'll see
Exactly why I'm terrified of him, terrified, yes me
He sits in the corner of my grandma's mind
Stealing her memories one at a time
He sits there and his eyes laugh at me
Knowing exactly what I can see.
The little monster that once was so cute
Is now big and tall and dressed in a suit
From every memory the little moster ate
He grew more with each meal, impossible to sate
Every time the little bugger moved
A precious memory was damaged, or removed.
As the little monster grew
He turned the memories he ate into a stew
He threw the stew into every face
Laughing as it splattered all over the place
No one knew at all how to react
This little black monster had to be accepted as fact.
Every attempt to stop the litle monster was bust
He turned every effort into dust
He took up more space in her mind
Making words difficult to find
He began to eat memories year by year
As each began to notice, they shed a tear.
The little monster isn't so little any more
He eats up details by the score
A word over here, a name over there
All the small missing pieces are adding up everywhere
The monster's teeth and claws grow larger
The good days spread out, farther and farther.
Little monster is now a teenager with a vengence
And grandma's memory is paying the penance
A death in the family is all it takes
To deliver to Monster a memory meal of steaks
He gobbles them all up real fast
Grandma becomes stuck in her head, far away in the past.
Little Monster is now an adult
She can't take care of herself, it all his fault
Once again Monster stares at me grinning ear to ear
My heart stumbles and I quake in my boots with fear
This same fate could be in my future as well
There isn't any real way to tell.
Little Monster is all grown up now
I want to destroy him, but the question is how?
